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PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Final Day Results

John Trevors — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:22:50 +0000

After 5 days of high level poker action in the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure tournament a winner has been announced and his name is Harrison Gimbel and he originates from the USA who finished first by eliminating all the 1,529 participants; Harrison will be enjoying the lucrative prize of $2,200,000.00. The rest of the top 224 players will share the prize pool of $14,831,300; the distribution of prize pool from position 224 to 177 is $15,000, positions 176 to 145 are rewarded with $17,500 and the next 32 spots get $20,000 each. All those who have managed to place themselves between 112 and 80 place get $23,500, $28,000 for the spots 79 to 73, $33,000 until place 65. Places 64 to 57 are rewarded with $38,000 while places from 56 to 49 $45,000. 48 to 41 places pay $52,000 while spots 40 to 33 pay $59,000. All those who managed to finish the tournament between spots 32 to 25 get $66,000 each.

1 — Harrison Gimbel, USA, $2,200,000
2 — Tyler Reiman — USA – $1,750,000
3 — Barry Shulman — USA – $1,350,000
4 — Benjamin Zamani — USA - $1,000,000
5 — Ryan D’Angelo — USA – $700,000
6 — Aage Ravn–Norway – $450,000
7 — Zachary Goldberg — USA – $300,000
8 — Thomas Koral — USA – $201,300
9 — Matthew Haugen — USA – $150,000
10 — Darren Keyes — USA – $150,000
11 — Dimitri Hefter — Germany – $130,000
12 — John Duthie — UK $130,000
13 — James Tolbert — USA – $115,000
14 — Richard Toth — Hungary – $115,000
15 — Bo Schultz — Denmark – $100,000
16 — Wayne Bentley — UK – $100,000
17 — Gijs Verheijen — Holland – $87,500
18 — Praz Bansi — UK – $87,500
19 — Jeff Madsen — USA – $87,500
20 — Tamas Lendvai — Hungary – $87,500
21 — Luc Greenwood — Canada – $75,000
22 — Robert Mizrachi — USA – $75,000
23 — Jimmie Guinther — USA – $75,000
24 — Kenny Nguyen — USA – $75,000

Gimbel and Reiman were the last two players standing. The last hand was one of the most exciting ones so far. Gimbel had TT while Reiman had 88. The flop came as T62 then the turn was an 8 giving a glimpse of hope for Reiman. Under a pandemonium a J came and it was all over. Gimber was the winner for the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure for 2010. Harrison Gimbel is the youngest participant who has managed to win the PCA in its history. He had managed to enter to the PCA final event after he won a $1,000 satellite just a few hours before the main event begun on PokerStars.

Joana Krupa to present PokerStars NAPT

John Trevors — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 01:58:55 +0000

The worlds most visited online poker room announced the launch of the long anticipated “PokerStars North American Poker Tour (NAPT)”, a new series of live tournaments in North America. What stole the show was not the return of the NAPT, but the announcement of popular Playboy girl Joanna Krupa as the event ambassador on TV. Famous Playboy model, Joanna Krupa who has participated in the series “Dancing with the Stars” will be the ambassador of the televised broadcast of the NAPT. Her presence will be another reason for poker enthusiasts to look in to the TV show as the popular tournament is expected to attract hundreds of players from around the world as the event will host Greg Raymer and Daniel Negreanu amongst other poker legends and poker pros.

In reality The PokerStars NAPT has already started in the Bahamas with the launch of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) on January 5th, 2010 as the events are considered to be the first part of the actual NAPT; the second event of the NAPT will be taking place at the Venetian Resort and Casino, between the 20th till the 24th February and will be the Main Event of the Venetian’s Deep Stack Extravaganza. The NAPT will make its final stop at the Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut, during the period between the 7th and the 11th of April 2010. The buy-ins for the 2 main events are set to $5,000 with the organizers offering a wide variety of side events similar to that of the PCA.

PokerStars Carribean Adventure World Record

John Trevors — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:46:41 +0000

A new record has been set by Pokerstars with 1,515 participants on the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event taking place this year in the Bahamas as last year’s Pokerstars Caribbean Adventure, participations had reached 1,347. This year the winner of the prestigious event will leave the Bahamas by at least 3 million U.S. dollars richer! Chip leader of Day 1b is Brazilian poker player Anibal Tacla completing the day with 166,000 chips. Although respected, the stack of the Tacla is just over half of the stack of chip leader of Day 1a, Wayne Bentley! Further down on the chip count finds Annette Obrestad with 124,900 chips.

The “shuffle up and deal” in day 1b gave world champion Joe Book, who did not live to make significant progress in this event, facing an exclusion during the day. A similar fate had other famous players like Boris Becker and Alex Gomez who left the tournament early. However, several members of the Pokerstars Team Pro did much better. Vanessa Rousseau reached her stack up to 140,000, only to close the day with 82,200. A ticket for Day 2 also was secured by Peter Eastgate, William Torso and Van Den Berg.

Updates regarding the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure will be found here daily

The Pokerstars Caribbean Adventure begins today

George Roberts — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:14:21 +0000

The series of tournaments designated as the mother of all the Pokerstars tournaments will be held at Atlantis Resort and Casino in the exotic Bahamas. The Main Event starts tomorrow with a $ 10,300 buy in. The tournament will last a total of 6 days and The PCA program includes, inter alia, a high roller event, a heads up tournament and an event specifically for the female audience. The tournament will take place over a period of only 10 days. This year’s festival will be held from 4 to 14 January 2010, the PCA is the event that any poker player worth his salt should miss, with hundreds of classified members of Team PokerStars and PokerStars Pro from the European Poker Tour, the Latin America Poker Tour and the Asia Pacific Poker Tour. The PCA is the largest live poker tournament outside the U.S. and one of the largest jackpots in the world. The winner of last year, Poorya Nazari, won his seat through PokerStars, took home a total of $3,000,000.

The Main Event will be held from 5 to 11 January. There will also be a full program of parallel events, like the high roller, regular tournaments with a variety of different poker games, in addition to favorites such as the battleship popular events. All the action takes place in the idyllic surroundings of the Atlantis Resort & Casino, Paradise Island, Bahamas.